Managing Director
email
Joseph Fong is a Managing Director at G2 and is involved in its private equity and real estate activities. He is also an Executive Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer of Empeiria Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company that completed its initial public offering in June 2011. From 2007 until joining G2, Mr. Fong worked in the private equity business of Fortress Investment Group, where he was a member of the acquisition team, focusing on real estate-related investments. At Fortress, he held a broad array of responsibilities with respect to the real estate division of a multi-billion dollar portfolio company, including development and other capital investments, asset dispositions, business planning and financial reporting. Prior to joining Fortress, Mr. Fong spent seven years in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Lehman Brothers, where he was involved in over $30 billion of completed transactions for real estate companies and opportunity funds, with transaction types that included buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, high-yield and investment-grade debt financings, initial public offerings, secondary equity and convertible offerings, and asset-based financings. He graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. with Distinction in Economics and Architecture from Yale University and also earned Master of Architecture and M.B.A. degrees from Yale University.
return to team page |
